Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
April
2007

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9780821369753.019

ISBN: 9780821369753

The 2007 Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) assesses the contributions of developing countries, developed countries, and international financial institutions toward meeting universa...

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451976007.071

ISBN: 9781451976007

This paper focuses on goal setting for development of the world. The paper highlights that the goals come from the agreements and resolutions of the world conferences organized by the United Nations in the first ha...

Series: Other Official Rpts and Docs

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
April
2007

ISBN: 9780821369753

The following figures and commentary provide an overview of the main trends in country and regional progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Owing to the limitations of both data and space...

Series: Other Official Rpts and Docs

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
April
2007

ISBN: 9780821369753

Under the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1), the international community aims to halve the global rate of extreme income poverty—as measured by the share of the population living on less than $1 per d...

Series: Other Official Rpts and Docs

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
April
2007

ISBN: 9780821369753

Since 2000, over 34 million additional children in the developing world have gained the chance to attend, and complete, primary school—one of the most massive expansions of schooling access in history. Over...

Series: Other Official Rpts and Docs

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
April
2007

ISBN: 9780821369753

The 2006 World Development Report acknowledges the importance of ensuring equal opportunities across population groups as an intrinsic aspect of development and as an instrument for achieving poverty reducti...

Series: Other Official Rpts and Docs

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
April
2007

ISBN: 9780821369753

Developed countries can help developing countries’ progress toward the MDGs by delivering on commitments of more (and more effective) assistance and by improving market access for these countries. The chapte...

Series: Other Official Rpts and Docs

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
April
2007

ISBN: 9780821369753

The environment in which the international financial institutions (IFIs)—the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the regional development banks—operate today is different from that of just...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
26
June
2000

ISBN: 9781451976007

The goals for international development address that most compelling of human desires—a world free of poverty and free of the misery that poverty breeds. The goals have been set in quantitative terms, so par...